Week in Apple: Parallels review, Apple TV jailbreak & teardown

Apple TV week means there were jailbreaks and teardowns all around. We also …

Happy October! This week in Apple news, the Apple TV 2.0 finally made its debut. Not only was it cruelly dissected, it was also jailbroken. We also posted an in-depth Parallels Desktop 6 review and discussed iAd's effect on the mobile advertising market. Read on for the roundup.

Parallels Desktop 6: The Ars Review: For decades, Apple users have dreamed of playing Windows games on their Macs at reasonable speeds. At long last, Parallels 6 realizes that dream. Benchmarks inside.

Teardown reveals new Apple TV comes with 8GB flash storage: The new Apple TV can't store purchased TV shows or movies anymore, but iFixit's latest teardown reveals that it still comes with 8GB of NAND flash storage. The company also says this is one of Apple's most repairable devices as of late.

Jacqui Cheng
Jacqui is an Editor at Large at Ars Technica, where she has spent the last eight years writing about Apple culture, gadgets, social networking, privacy, and more. Emailjacqui@arstechnica.com//Twitter@eJacqui

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